North African Wars

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The North African Wars refer to a conflict fought between February 18, 2035, and September 29, 2035 over the territories of Algeria, Morocco, and Nigeria in Africa between the invading United States of Western Europe and the African Confederation. Contemporary reporting framed the invasion as a counter-terrorist police action, alleging that recent terror attacks in Madrid had been caused by a terror cell in the African Confederation, but later historical analysis suggested that the primary causes of the war were economic.

Causes

There is a disparity between the alleged and likely causes for the war, easily divided into the rhetorical posture assumed by the USWE government to justify their invasion to their populace, and the economic motivations that likely drove the government to take such radical action.

Rhetorical Posture

Weeks prior to the invasion, a metro station in Madrid, Spain, was struck by a suicide bomber. While later ties were circumstantial at best, the government of the Republic of Spain and the USWE as a whole began using the conversations surrounding this individual to establish a pretext of West African support, alleging specifically that the bomber was affiliated with a largely-defunct terror cell operating in Morocco and Algeria.

Drumming up public support for the war was largely successful, in part due to stoking existing sentiments of xenophobia, and in later stages of the war a blank appeal to perceived crises.

Economic Motivations

The main motivations for the war were likely entirely economic. Western Africa was rich in resources that western europe largely lacked, such as Rare Earth Metals and what was left of the global Petroleum Oil supply. In addition, several prominent USWE political factions frequently stoked their base using far-right talking points such as those relating to overcrowding and appeals to the glorious colonial past of Western Europe.

While the initial actions of the war likely were founded in a sort of unilateral, international police action, the economic and xenophobic sentiment was strong enough to support a full-scale invasion of Morocco and Algeria with the ultimate intention of also taking Nigeria and all lands west to the Atlantic.

Course of the War

The war can ultimately be divided into a few distinct phases: the initial USWE invasions of Morocco and Algeria, the counter-invasion by the African Confederation and resulting stalemate, and the entry of Oceanic Econo-Political Union forces into the war on the side of the African Confederation.